I tend to think that Easter Eggs are a sign of creativity in and of themselves. In one of my unreleased desktop applications, we poured way more time into an Easter egg than we should have (and uncovered a very interesting way to DOS a mac). It's a fun creative outlet.

He meant that people put easter eggs into applications because they hated the corporate drone work and used the eggs as a form of rebellion. Web 2.0 was suppose to free us all from that sort of drudgery.

Interesting point. A lot of quirky creativity does get to show itself these days without needing to use easter eggs. For example in blog posts, cute little "About" pages, fun features like, etc.

Do things like this count as easter eggs? Or are they "fun" features? http://www.google.com/search?q=number+of+horns+on+a+unicorn+...